O waterfall, you stand frozen in time by winter’s hold,
Sculpted by frost’s unthawing heart.
Your once roaring torrents now silent as monuments of old
A grand hymn to nature’s beautiful art.
What music lies entombed within your freeze?
In your stillness, a deeper voice is found,
Whispers soft as wind through barren trees
Your silence speaks of mighty rivers bound,
Awaiting the day they are set free,
A mirror to the soul’s own secrecy.
Frozen mid-dance, your silent gleam,
O monument of ice, attests to beauty’s reign.
Standing bright, wrought in winter’s dream
A fragile shrine, while winter doth remain.
As a metaphor you serve, o frozen tide,
For all we cherish. Brief as morning’s dew,
Like the love and joy that in our lives abide,
Your shining beauty will melt and slip from view.
Your temporal nature bids us marvel at your exalted form,
As even you are not immune to nature’s grand reform.
A day will come when your frosty shackles lose their bind.
As a fleeting breath on a winter morrow,
Your icy beauty shall soon pass to a mere memory of the mind.
Yet shall our hearts be overcome with sorrow?
And when spring’s soft breath bids your currents flow,
Moonlight will no longer shower its reverence on your brow.
Your icy crown will melt where once stars at midnight did glow,
Yet shall these thoughts sour the majesty of now?
Nay! O cascade, locked in winter’s stern embrace,
You have taught us peace within your frozen grace.
Your crystal beauty, carved in frozen stone,
Demands our gaze, and bids the heart to pause.
We must accept that we have been thrown,
Into a world where all must yield to time’s laws.
Now we see your end makes you more bright,
Your melting face is the cause of your glisten so divine.
A beacon brief, yet burning with pure light,
The law of impermanence creates your radiant shine.
In your vanishing, we learn to hold you dear
To cherish and keep a moment of beauty near.
So let us stand at your gleaming throne,
And learn to love what cannot stay.
For every beautiful thing we have known,
Shall one day thaw and fade away.
O radiant fall, your truth has set us free,
To be in awe, and let our adoration flow.
Let us seize the hour, with hearts that dare to see,
This frozen now is all we get to know.
Your call for us to love and praise
Endures beyond your fleeting days.